On the other hand, lots of christians liked him because he was progressive (more than his predecessor, anyway). Catholics are not all fundamentalists and in general don’t have much in common with the catholics bishops in the US, who are for the most part downright medieval.

Only American Protesting Catholics had issues with him. The same ones that post Deus Vult memes on Facebook.

Plenty(well, some) Catholics in Poland had an issue with him for the exact same reason - just way too progressive for them. Although I do think that American Catholics are particularly.....fervent in their beliefs.

Look up some numbers, his approval ratings outside of America were rapidly declining (at least in Latin America). [1] Interestingly the US is the one place where his approval ratings didn't decline over time, probably owing to the perfectly divided nature of contemporary politics. As he lost support from one side he gained it in equal proportions from the other. But in places like Argentina, his birth place no less, his approval rating dropped 27 points as he got increasingly involved in Progressive stuff.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/26/how-peopl...

I saw a map of countries he visited as the Pope and Argentina wasn't even there. Feels really strange.

One data point, but I live in a progressive country in western Europe, and I have close family members who are in the "right wing / trumpist / christians" movement (which does exist in Europe too), and obviously they really disliked this pope.

I think these are two sides of the same coin

i saw this only on the internet tho, and mainly the english speaking internet, never in real life.

This just isn't true. Anyone who hangs around people who follow the church happenings would know even if they were in support of his actions.